Re: FN-FORUM: DNS dropping

date posted 27th June 2003 10:17

Ali Turner wrote:

> It may be that I'm not fully awake yet but I can't work this one out.
> The DNS on an internet connection periodically won't resolve.
> The connection has not been dropped as other machines on the network connect
> fine.
> The only way to get it back again seems to be swap the primary & secondary
> DNS servers around and reboot.

> Does anyone have any idea as to what might be causing this?

Not using BT BrokenWorld ADSL by any chance? They've been having a
mess of problems since yesterday. One of my clients now has their
connection back (24 hours later) but I'm still getting batches of
error messages from the mail server which imply that about once or
twice over a half our period DNS is just disappearing, even though the
line is good.

I just pointed out that it served them right for going with BT when I
told them not too ;)

Cheers,

Pete
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Peter Croft
PC Associates